#9p4 #9m4 Interface in GameMaker REMEMBER

Remember:

Sprites  - 32 x 32, all different colours, name start with spr_
Objects - name starts with obj_, link to sprite, Add event (main 1 tab) got to room....
Room - load in your background via the backgroud tab, insert the obj_button to cover your existing button.

#9p4 #9m4 Creating Your Interface

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Creating Your Interface: LO1 - To understand how to create a button in GameMaker so that you can set up a menu system for your game LO2 - To understand what testing ...

#9p4 #9m4 Creating Your Character

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Creating Your Character: LO1 - To understand what makes an effective video game character so that you can develop one of your own Starter What makes a good video...

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m4 #9p4 Rules Log

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Rules Log: LO1 - To understand what a rule is in the context of computer gaming LO2 - To understand what a an action and an event are  in the context ...

9m4: Creating Your Game Screens1

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Creating Your Game Screens1: Starter Download this assets table into Sites --> DA204SPB --> Evidence Assets_table.doc Download this file Open t...

#9m4 Storyboards

LO: To develop our story board and annotation skills

Starter:
Download the story board template in to your evidence folder if you have not done so already.

Task:
Complete your drawings for the following screens. You MUST have each of these screens.

1. Main Menu screen
2. Instruction Screen
3. Back story screen
4. Level 1
5. Level 2 
6. Level 3
7. Winning Screen
8. Losing Screen

Complete a storyboard for EACH of the above screens. Your drawings will be photographed during the lesson and put on the write drive. 

When your images are on the write drive, copy ALL of them in to your evidence folder.

EXT:

Get feedback on each of your storyboards in green font at the bottom of each page. 

You then need to link each storyboard Word document separately on to your index page.

Plenary:

How are story boards useful?

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LO: To understand what a story board is and how to create them for our games.

Starter: 
What is a storyboard? Discuss with the person next to you. Find some examples on line.

Task: 
Fold a sheet of A4 paper in to 4 then in each quarter draw how each screen will look like for every level, menu, win, lose and title screen in your game.
You can colour these if they wish.
You will need at least 2 sheets of A4.

Ext:
Download the storyboard template and begin completing the details for each screen.
You will be photographing your drawings and inserting them next lesson.

Plenary:
Write a blog post explaining what a storyboard is and why they are used.

Moodboard Continued #9p4 #9m4

Click here for the Moodboard Checklist.

Ensure you have covered each bullet point before emailing me your work.

Work must be submitted to me (h.cooke@wildern.hants.sch.uk) by the end of the lesson for printing.

Moodboard #9p4 #9m4

LO: To understand the criteria for creating a mood board.

Starter: Click here to read the SPB page for mood boards.

Task: You need to collect images, examples of fonts, etc that could be used in your game. These will be printed out and stuck on sugar paper to form your mood board.

Remember: A mood board is mainly images and has very little text.

Make sure you have images representing the following:

• the game genre and style
• settings/environments
• the characters
• any music, sound effects or speech
• anything else you think is important

Click here to see an annotated example.

Plenary: Blog about your progress.

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m4 #9p4 GameMaker Tutorial1

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 GameMaker Tutorial1: LO1 - To develop an understanding of key GameMaker terms LO2 - To create your first game using GameMaker Task1 In today's lesson you w...

mrmknight.co.uk: Basic Platfrom Game #9p4 #9m4

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#9p4 #9m4 HTML - Adding tables and images.

LO: To understand how to add tables and images to our web pages.
LO: To understand how to embed a video on to our web pages.

Starter:
Recap of last lesson. Add to your HTML annotations as we go through.

Main:
Using this tutorial, create a table in your web page that has 2 columns and 4 rows.

• The columns will be labelled Advantages and Disadvantages. 
• Give 3 of each for using html to create web pages.

Using this tutorial, add images to your web pages.

• The images must represent the work you have done so far this year.
• Try aligning the images differently on the page. (right, center, etc)

Print screen the html code you have written so far today. Annotate this, explaining what the code does. Describe in detail.

EXT:
Try embedding a You tube video on your web page.
Again print screen the steps you took to do this.

Plenary:
Print your print screens.
Blog about your progress this lesson, stating what progress you have made as well as what you are still unsure about.

Challenge Card #9P4 #9M4

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#9m4 #9p4 Animation

LO: To understand how to create an animation in Fireworks.

Starter: In pairs discuss - What is an animation? How are they made?

1. Open Adobe Fireworks.
(Start, All Programs, Adobe Master Collection CS5)
2. Create a new blank Fireworks document.
3. Draw a circle shape and change the colour to red.
4. Duplicate the state 4 times.
5. Edit each state so that the circle is in a different position each time.
6. Play the animation - What happens?

Have a go at creating  your own animation. It could be a UFO landing, a Happy Birthday message, a running man, etc...

Plenary: Show case what you have done so far. Was it easy or hard? Why?

#9m4 Illustrator Tutorials

LO: To develop our use of Illustrator tools.

Click the link, choose a design to create and follow the instructions.

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Pupils need to complete all Information Point work first.

Pupils then need to research, what makes a good logo. This must be a Word document with annotated example logos. What is good about them? What is bad? And why?

Pupils will be designing their own logo for their website using either Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Fireworks.
They must only use the vector tools.

Once pupils have completed this, they need to get feedback on their logo and write this up on their blog. They need to improve their logo using the feedback and show before and after shots.

Towards the end of the lesson, pupils must write a blog reflecting on everything they have done this term. They must explain any new skills they have learnt this term.

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Pupils need to complete any work they did not get done yesterday. 

Pupils need to complete adding information to their information points.
They need to add transitions and animations where possible.

Once pupils have completed this, they need to get feedback from a peer and write this feedback on their blogs. At least 2 stars and 1 wish.

They then need to make improvements from that feedback and again explain this on their blog.

Should pupils complete all of this, they can create a banner for their websites using Picmonkey.

Once pupils have done this, they need to research, what makes a good logo. This must be a Word document with annotated example logos. What is good about them? What is bad? And why?
Pupils will be designing their own logo for their website using either Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Fireworks.

Cover #09P4 12/10/12 Period 1

LO: To develop our use of Illustrator tools.

Starter: You need to click on the link below and select one of the cartoon illustrations from the list.

Illustrator Tutorials

Main: By carefully following the tutorial instructions create one of the cartoons. You will need to use Adobe Illustrator. (Start - All Programs - Adobe Master Collection CS5)
Save the cartoon in your sites folder and make sure you save it regularly.

Plenary: Showcase your cartoon to the rest of the class. Who's looks most like the example?

Mr Fenner Online: Banner Creation #09P4 #09M4

Mr Fenner Online: Banner Creation: Task 1 - Create a banner for your Blog. In this lesson you will create a banner to go at the top of your Blog. You have a choice of how ...

#09P4 Cover Work 25/09/12

Lesson 2
LO: To research and be able to discuss an ICT news story.
LO: To show the ability to create a website for a particular target audience.

Starter - What ICT stories are there in the news at the moment? 5 mins to find as many as you can.

1. Choose a news story and create a Word document of research on the story. You will need to write up your own version of the story. You will need to save images associated with the story also.

2. Using Dreamweaver and the skills you learnt in Year 8, you need to create 2 web pages. One that present the story for adults and one that presents the story to children. Think about the points covered in the previous lesson when deciding upon formatting and content.

3. When saving the web pages, create a new folder in your Sites folder called Web Comparison and save them in there. Make sure you name one Adults.html and the other kids.html.

Plenary - Showcase your web pages to the rest of the class. Can they tell which is aimed at which audience?